Re: [9fans] Any one going to change to sata disks?

[Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>]

These were the days before switches and hubs, just yellow snake
and $1,000 interface boards.  This would have been 1986 or so.

I was always frustrated that the ideas from the Labs never made it
outside the building intact.  The Blit turned into the DMD5620 with a
$6,000 price tag in the days of $1,000 terminals, the 3B20 costs more
than a VAX but ran slower, streams turned into STREAMS.  It was like
there was some sort of screw-it-up filter at Basking Ridge.  Good
ideas went in and bad products, bad marketing, bad pricing would
emerge.

But I guess that's just the down side of working for the phone
company.  The up side was all those resources to pursue really neat
ideas in the first place.  Bell Labs changed the world.  A bunch.


> wow!  that's pricy.
> 
> for 100k you could have had the same style solution in ethernet by buying 
> fancy routers, even in those days.
> 
> wasn't one of the advantages of dk supposed to be that it was cheep to
> implement?
> 
> - erik
> 
> On Fri Jun 30 09:32:39 CDT 2006, brantley@coraid.com wrote:
>> 
>> Back in the mid 1980's I was going to try to get the company I worked
>> for to use Datakit instead of Ethernet, but when I saw the $100K price
>> tag, I gave up.
>> 
>> It took a little while for hubs to be cheap enough to replace the yellow snake.